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thorough revision, the Orobanchea, Acanthacee, Phrymacee, Fer- 
benaceæ, and Myoporacee. And to satisfy the public that these 
respective families have been intrusted to good hands, we need 
only say that Orobanchee has been executed by M. Reuter; 
Acanthacee by Dr. and Professor Nees von Esenbeck;* and 
the Phrymacee and Verbenaceæ families by Dr. Schauer, so well 
known for his ‘ Memoir on the Myrtacee ; and the Myoporacee by 
M. De Candolle. The Orobancheæ are divided into twelve already 
established genera; the Acanthaceæ (“ magno specierum numero 
inter tropicos totius orbis luxuriantes, in regionibus subtropicis - 
multo rariores, in hemisphærio boreali vix ultra 15°, in australi - 
non ultra 12° isotherm. reperiuntur") into two suborders, eleven 
tribes, and no less than one hundred and fifty-four genera. Phry- 
maceæ have only one genus and one species, found both in the 
Old and in the New World. Verbenaceæ, to which we are happy to 
find most of the Vitices of Jussieu united, are grouped into 
three tribes, and the two former of them into ten subtribes, the 
whole embracing forty-two genera. The last family in the volume, 
Myoporacee (chiefly of Australian origin), includes twelve genera. 
We have reason to know that the 12th Part, or volume, is in a 
state of great forwardness, and that the Labiate are prepared by — 
Mr. Bentham, the Plumbaginee by M. Boissier, and the Cheno- 
podiaceæ, Phytolacceæ, and Amaranthacee by M. Moquin-Tandon. — 
History of Barsapos ; comprising a geographical and statis- 
tical description, &c., &e., and an account of the Geology and 
Natural Productions. By Str Rogert H. SCHOMBURGK. 
London : Longman and Co. 1848. 
This indefatigable and distinguished Traveller eid Naturalist 
could not visit the small Island of Barbados, without bringing 
home materials for a History of the country, which are here given 
in a handsome Royal 8vo volume, with some well executed plates. 
_ * We may here observe that the Professor, ‘in quoting the name uf Burke in | 
. William Hooker's piede has. ease it for an abbreviation of Burchell. 
